Frederick Douglass: “Notwithstanding the just and humane sentiment of New Bedford three and forty years ago, the place was not entirely free…”

The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.